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N E W S MaxiCoat ® Epoxy floor & wall coating system MaxiCoat is ideal for heavy duty traffic areas; has a very high chemical resistance, is NZFSA approved and has the strength of conventional oil-based coatings, but with the safety and convenience of water as a solvent. Only two coats are required to give a durable long lasting finish, reducing cost and application time. MetalFix can be used as a primer in heavy rust situations. Water based & durable for a long lasting finish Key applications: * Forecourt & showroom floors or walls * Car garages & workshops * Aircraft hangar floors * Cold storage rooms 10 October 2016 University of Waikato engineering student Shalini Guleria has been awarded second place in the 2016 Sir Paul Callaghan Eureka! Awards for her ideas on turning wastewater into high-quality phosphate fertiliser.   Shalini presented her idea during a 12 minute presentation alongside six other undergraduate finalists from around New Zealand. This is the second time Shalini has had success at the Eureka! Awards, as she also placed second in 2014. The purpose of the annual awards is to identify and foster young leaders who will support  economic growth through science, technology, engineering, maths (STEM), while contributing to the late Sir Paul Callaghan’s goal of New Zealand becoming ‘the most beautiful, stimulating and exciting place in the world in which to live and work’. The key part of the Eureka Awards is showing how your STEM idea can benefit New Zealand’s economic, environmental and social wealth and wellbeing. Shalini’s presentation was about converting waste to value. “I proposed the use of industrial wastewater be converted to a high-quality phosphate fertiliser called struvite” she says. “Currently in New Zealand, struvite formation is a problem in wastewater treatment facilities but I proposed that this problem is actually a solution to some even bigger issues like global warming, depletion of a non-renewable resource and water pollution” says Shalini. Shalini, a former Hamilton Girls’ High School student, received a highly commended award of $5,000 for her second place success in the competition. She was also awarded the $2,500 Weta Digital Gold Scholarship for the most innovative and creative engineering solution applying science for technological innovation.   She received her award at Government House in Wellington. ACC wants community and business input in levy process ACC is asking Kiwis to share their thoughts and ideas about levy setting for the 2017 to 2019 period, as part of a consultation process running from September 21 to October 19. ACC Board chair, Dame Paula Rebstock, says, “ACC belongs to every New Zealander and the levy consultation process provides everyone with an opportunity to tell us what they think.” ACC is now reviewing and proposing new levy rates for a two-year period, rather than every year. “This feedback is important as it helps us to form our proposals as well as challenge our thinking on levies.” There will be changes to some levies in the coming year and ACC is working to ensure levies are fair, to help its customers understand the levy-setting process, the part it plays and the value they receive in return, says Ms Rebstock. “While we will be making every effort to reduce levies where possible, as more New Zealanders benefit from the support we provide, we will continue to experience increases in medical and compensation costs. ACC has also achieved healthy investment returns over the last few years, which reduces the total levies we need to collect. For two of the three levies, this means we’ll see a reduction.” Levy proposals for the coming year, in brief: For businesses there will be a 10% reduction in the work levy, while there will be major changes to workplace safety incentive programmes For employees, due to an increase in claims costs, it is proposed to increase the earners’ levy by 3% For car owners it is proposed to reduce the petrol levy by 13% and the registration levy by an average of 13%. For motorcyclists the proposal is to maintain current motorcycle levies of the motorcycle safety levy and reduce the petrol levy by 13%. ACC encourages anyone to make a submission on any aspect of the levy structures in any of the categories to provide their insight into where ACC should be focusing its future efforts. In 2015 ACC introduced the online platform www.shapeyouracc.co.nz to host conversations. “This proved to be a very successful forum for people to make their submissions, see other people’s ideas and comments. We encourage people to take advantage of this opportunity to submit and discuss their ideas.  We will be listening.” Eureka moments for engineering student Workshop for Kiwi NEC3 project managers NEC will be hosting a one-day workshop in Christchurch, on October 27. This training is aimed for all those acting or that intend to act as an NEC3 Engineering and construction contract (ECC) project manager. Marc Palmer will be delivering the workshop. He is a project management consultant with 30 years of industry experience, having delivered projects across diverse sectors and disciplines, and in the last 20 years mostly under NEC contracts. The workshop has been designed to equip its attendees to competently act in the role. It comprises two main sessions: Review of ECC project manager’s duties and case studies analysis. This workshop is being delivered in partnership with Constructing Excellence in New Zealand that holds the training franchise for New Zealand. Constructing Excellence is also the licensed re-seller of NEC3 information and currently acts as the secretariat to the Australasian NEC3 User Group. To register visit neccontract.com/NZworkshop * Light & heavy industrial factories * Food processing plants & freezing works * Fishing vessels, ships & offshore installations KTKemTek 03 688 2160 www.kemtek.co.nz HM039


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